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The Wisconsin billionaire owner of downtown Boise’s BoDo is now also the owner of the Chicago-style Jefferson Place office building at Ninth and Jefferson streets. The five-story, brick structure built in 1914 was acquired June 9 by Hendricks Commercial Properties ...

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The Salvation Army’s sale of its 1928 Booth Marian Pritchett School property on the North End closed on Sept. 28 for $2 million after a prolonged approval process, the Salvation Army reported. Even under new ownership, the Salvation Army’s School ...

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Woodland Kids in early September leased the final 12,000-square-foot space to fill up the former Kmart building on Fairview Avenue in western Boise. Kmart, which occupied the space since it was built in 1976 at what was then the western ...

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A new $257,000 grant will enable the Idaho Falls Civic Center for the Performing Arts to add a mechanical orchestra lift to the first phase of renovations, which also include the replacement of all seats and a new color scheme ...

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National dockless bicycling sharing and scooter company Lime unloaded its first shipment of 200 bright green electric scooters Sept. 27 in Meridian. The city of Meridian and Lime signed a memo of understanding Sept. 25 allowing Lime to deploy and ...

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Farmers and gardeners in Kuna will no longer have to commute to Nampa or Caldwell for their D&B Supply needs. D&B Supply plans to build its first Kuna store at Meridian and Deer Flat roads, the city’s most prominent retail ...

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Downtown-worthy office buildings are on the way for the northwest corner of Meridian, where open landscape still dominates. Local developers Tommy Ahlquist and David Turnbull see the eventual extension of Highway 16 south to Interstate 84 and the relentless Meridian ...

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Students at Brigham Young University-Idaho can work directly with companies and governments across the country or even the world without leaving Rexburg. The nonprofit Research & Business Development Center in Rexburg lines up projects with large companies and small, local ...

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Idaho hotels lead the northwestern states in increases in the average daily rate at hotels but also had the largest decrease in room occupancy over the past year, according to a hospitality research report. The Marcus & Millichap Hospitality Research ...

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The third Friday of September is circled on calendars around the world as PARK(ing) Day, an event that highlights “the need for new approaches to making the urban landscape.” There’s nothing official about PARK(ing) Day, but since San Francisco art ...

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